Environment and flooding protection team members were surprised to find the duck in a sewage pipe.
Water company engineers found a rather unexpected intruder as they explored a sewer with a robotic camera.
The quacking discovery was made by Wessex Water staff during a routine survey of an underground rainwater sewer pipe in Frenchay, Bristol. A duck, believed to be on the hunt for algae to eat, was spotted offering a quizzical look straight down the camera's lens, having apparently wandered into the pipe from a nearby access point.
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